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Presentation to 78th session of WP1

26 March 2019

• Established in April 2018 as a UN Multi-Partner Trust Fund, with the

strong support of the SG, ECE/ES, Special Envoy, and GA’s welcome

• Aimed to fund concrete actions to achieve SDG road safety targets and

align with the 5 pillars of the Decade of Action for Road Safety

• Brings together, through MOU, 10 UN participating organizations

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OVERVIEW

• Multi-partnership leverages collective and multi-

sectoral know-how and fundraising capability

• Underpinned by innovative governance, bringing

around UN table a variety stakeholders, including UN entities, UN Member States and non-UN actors (private sector, civil society and academia)

• Geared to mobilize public and private funding (to date, $20 million in

contributions and pledges);

• Supported substantively and operationally by Secretariat housed at

UNECE (Geneva);

• Fiduciary managed by Multi Partner Trust Fund Office at UNDP (NY);

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OVERVIEW

• Grounded on a few founding documents:

✓ Terms of Reference ✓ Global Framework Plan of Action for Road Safety ✓ Funding Priorities and Criteria ✓ Operations Manual ✓ Fundraising Strategy ✓ Rules of Procedure of the Advisory Board and Steering Committee

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OVERALL GOAL

To finance projects and activities to:

• Significantly reduce road traffic fatalities

and their burden on economies world- wide

• Build capacity (of low- and middle-

income countries) to improve road safety through strengthened and sustained national RS systems

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GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE

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GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE Advisory Board 2018-20

• Member States - representing five UN regions (5 seats)
• Member State donors (3 seats)
• UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety
• Chair of the Global Forum for Road Traffic Safety (WP.1) - [Chair]
• United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
• World Bank
• World Health Organization
• Research and Academia Institutions (2 seats)
• Civil Society (2 seats)
• Private sector donors (3 seats)
• Chair of the UNRSTF Steering Committee

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GOVERNANCE STRU RUCTURE Steering Committee 2018-20

• UN Regional Commissions (5 seats)
• Member State donors (2 seats)
• World Health Organization
• UN Agency/Department (1 seat)
• Private sector donors (2 seats)
• Chair of the Multilateral Development Bank WG on Road Safety

(1 seat)

• Civil Society (1 seat)

• Full operationalization of the

Trust Fund

• Building of Secretariat Team
• Developing trust-based,

transparent and accountable working methods

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NEXT STEPS - 2019

• Defining end-game and

progressive steps to lead to it

• Launching first Call for

Applications with clear parameters for eligibility

• Increasing Fund’s visibility and

fundraising

• Collecting data and stories from

first harvest/pilot projects

• Will finance results-oriented, impact-driven

activities

• Expertise of entire UN System for concerted

approach to addressing road safety

• Coordination and complementarity with other

road safety funds (WB, FIA Foundation)

• SDG targets sets inclusive framework (including

vulnerable situations)

• Adopted Global Framework Plan of Action as bed-

rock

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VALUE ADDED

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VALUE ADDED

A game changer for improvement of global road safety

• Annual funding potential for the Trust Fund from all sources

(private, public and innovative) is estimated at cumulative:

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FUNDRAISING TARGETS

• Safe road – Scaling safe street designs in Ethiopia
• Post-crash response - Improving road traffic fatality

data in Cote d’Ivoire and Senegal

• Safe user/legislation - Strengthening legal

frameworks for road safety in Pakistan and Egypt

• Safe user/enforcement - Strengthening speed

management in the Philippines

• Safe user – Education for vulnerable road users:

Capacity development on child responsive urban planning and sustainable urban transport in Paraguay, the Philippines and South Africa.

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5 PILO LOT PRO ROJECTS

Thank you!

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